Jackson, Georgia.
Typical home $282,667 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,802 (+45.8%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$832 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,018 +1%
- $280,650$282,667 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,860 +23%
- $229,807$282,667 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Jackson$1,484
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Jackson, GA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Jackson, GA rose 45.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Living in Jackson, Butts County, Georgia
Jackson is a city of 5,557 people in Butts County. Half its households earn more than $46,191 a year and half less, against $69,241 across Butts County. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Butts County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butts County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Jackson is a small city and the seat of Butts County, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and homes are lived in by their owners only a little more often than not, so renting is part of everyday life. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short on the cold side, with the coldest days in January, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Jackson are Butts County Schools, Sylvan Grove Hospital and Central Ga EMC. Unemployment across Butts County has stayed about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs, and the typical commute is a modest one, with only a small number of people working from home.
Things to do. Indian Springs State Park and High Falls State Park, both protected areas, are a short drive away, as is the Ocmulgee River for time on the water. Dauset Trails Nature Center, a museum with a nature focus, is also a short drive from town. For a day out with a longer drive, Atlanta Motor Speedway is a race track that draws crowds for its events.
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- 1,995households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Butts County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butts County had 8,528 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcdonough Ene weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson
- Butts County SchoolsSchool district506FTE
- Westbury Center of Jackson for Nursing and HealingSkilled nursing facilities317
- Central Ga EMCDistribution of electric power112
- Sylvan Grove HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
- Liberty Tire Recycling - Jackson, GA QTRTires, scrap, merchant wholesalers45
- JacksonMail and parcel delivery40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 643 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jackson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Butts County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Jackson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jackson$282,667
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Jackson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 38 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Jackson30.14%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Jackson38
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jackson151
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jackson31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Jackson$274,390
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Jackson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jackson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.